AnCríostóir wrote:
Last line in the chorus is "Anois ar theacht an tsamhraidh!"
"An samhradh" is, in this case, in the genitive.
An samhradh is the nominative singular, not a form of the genitive.
An tsamhraidh, as it appears in the lyric, is the genitive singular.
AnCríostóir wrote:
Just wondering is it so because, in this case, "summer" is an indefinite quantity?
(I'm amazed at the rabbit hole of grammar I get into sometimes. When do I get any work done?...)
C.
No, it's not to do with an indefinite quantity. It's the singular form of the noun "summer", meaning it has a fixed quantity of one.
The prefixing of the
t is the result of using the definite article
an in the genitive case with a 1st declension masculine noun beginning in
s:
samhradh = summer
an samhradh = the summer
samhraidh = of summer
an tsamhraidh = of the summer
Check
teanglann's grammar wizard if in doubt about these things. It's a good first port of call.